Chillin’ at the Apple Store

Blogging at the King-of-Prussia Mall Starbucks with Kevin Tofel of jkOnTheRun (right) was really just an excuse to get hands-on with an iPhone at the nearby Apple store. Sum-up of my impression: keyboard is difficult but gets easier to use; something I was doing on the touch screen kept kicking me out of applications; EDGE connection is way too slow for Web browsing (don’t know why the Apple store wasn’t using its own Wi-Fi connection); everything about the interface is really, really pretty.

Here’s something interesting about the Apple store, though. There’s now a whole section dedicated to external hard drives (there was a Western Digital, among others) right beside the section dedicated to photo printers (most, if not all, HP). Clearly Apple wants its gadgets to be multimedia hubs, but doesn’t mind if you offload content to another dedicated device for certain functions, like storage and printing. A wise move in my opinion. Though I wonder what the plan is for .mac…

UPDATE: See this post on iPhone storage and .mac